Graham Auman Pitts teaches history and international studies at the University of Mississippi. His research focuses on the environmental history of war, food, and famine in the modern Middle E…
Oussema Othmeni is a PhD Candidate and a Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Sousse, Tunisia, and has joined the Institute for Middle East Studies as a Visi…
Jackson Perry is a visiting lecturer in the History Department at George Washington University. He completed a PhD in History at Georgetown University in 2021. Jackson previously worked as a p…
Dr. Emma Soubrier is a French political scientist with a focus on international relations and security studies. She is an associate researcher at the Université Clermont Auvergne where she got…
Charles E. Kiamie III, MESP BA ‘00, is Deputy Director of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Office of Local Sustainability – and Professorial Lecturer in both the E…
Initially planning to major in International Affairs, Anna McMahon fell in love with the Middle East Studies program instead and graduated with her BA in 2015. While at GW, Anna interned with …
Dr. Dania Thafer
Dr. Dania Thafer is a political scientist with a focus on the political economy and international relations of the Arab Gulf states. More specifically, her area of expertise i…
Sina Azodi, ESIA BA ’10, MA ’13
Sina Azodi is a PhD candidate in International Affairs at the University of South Florida. His research interests include international security, nu…
How did you come up with the idea of writing a textbook on Business Arabic?
My interest in business Arabic began in 2008, when GW-CIBER expanded its scope to include business languages. With a…
Rawan Alkhatib is an alumni abroad who graduated from the Middle East Studies MA program in 2017. She chose the Elliott School because of the graduate program’s focus on writing policy-t…
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